Modem works, Internet doesnot??

[Conrad Newton]

>From kayla on Sunday, 2006-04-02 at 15:57:26 +0100:
> 
> Don't mean to steal the thread, but I'm having a similar problem. I'm
> trying to setup wvdial.conf. I type in my isp's phone#, my login and
> password. I then save, Ctrl-o, and exit. But when I try to dial, sudo
> wvdial, it says there is no isp, login, password in the file. 
> Anyone got any ideas how I'm messing this up? 
> It may be that I saved that file the very first time without all the
> info, but I'd think after adding the proper info, and saving it again,
> it would now be there?

All that information should be contained in a file called

/etc/wvdial.conf

Is the file there?  What is in it?  Have a look!

I have not used wvdial for a while now, but from
what I recall,  there may be more than one place
to enter your phone number/name/password.

Make sure that each entry in /etc/wvdial.conf
is accompanied by all your vital information.
Depending on what method you use to connect
(PAP/CHAP), there may be a few other files
that you have to worry about, too.

wvdial is an easy-to-use program, so if something
is wrong, it is probably just a little thing.

Conrad